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DESIDERATE

Definition: DESIDERATE

DESIDERATE

Transitive verb

1. To desire; to feel the want of; to lack; to miss; to want.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "DESIDERATE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1657. (references)

Note: Desiderate \De*sid"er*ate\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Desiderated; present participle verb or noun Desiderating.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms within Context: DESIDERATE

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Desire

Desiderate; sigh for, cry for, gape for, gasp for, pine for, pant for, languish for, yearn for, long, be on thorns for, hope for; aspire after; catch at, grasp at, jump at.

Requirement

Stand in need of; lack; desiderate; desire; be necessary; Adjective:

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: DESIDERATE

English words defined with "DESIDERATE": Desiderated, Desiderating. (references)
Etymologies containing "DESIDERATE": Desideratum. (references)
Non-English Usage: "DESIDERATE" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Italian (you all wish).

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Commercial Usage: DESIDERATE

DomainTitle

Books

  • Darstellung phonetischer Transkriptionszeichen : Studien zur Entwicklung von Schriftträgern mit phonetischen Zeichen in zeitgenössischen Schreibtechnologien : Anregungen, Desiderate, Zielvorgaben (reference)

  • Resultate und Desiderate der Paracelsus-Forschung (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: DESIDERATE

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  desiderate

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: DESIDERATE

Language Translations for "DESIDERATE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

dëshiroj (aspire, care, choose, crave, desire, like, list, love, please, want, wish, wish for), nuk mjafton. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏تمنى (have one's wish, wish, wonder, would). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

желая (desire, like, list, want, will, wish, would), изисквам (call for, claim, command, demand, enforce, enjoin, exact, indicate, necessitate, postulate, require, take, want). (various references)

   

Czech

  

postrádat (lack, miss, spare). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ל"שתוקק ל- (have a yen for, spoil for). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szükségét érzi valaminek. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

esiderateday

   

Portuguese

  

desejar (ache, aspire, care, covet, crave, desire, fancy, have an eye for, hunger march, like, list, please wait a moment, will, wish), sentir a falta de. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

чувствовать отсутствие, желать приобрести. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

želeti nešto. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

querer (cherish, desire, feel like, like, live, love, please, want, will, wish, woollen), apetecer (attract, crave, love, lust for). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

sakna (be destitute of, be lacking in, lack, lack for, miss, regret, want), längta efter (ache, ache for, crave, long for, look forward to, yearn). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

відчувати брак. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: DESIDERATE

Derivations

Words beginning with "DESIDERATE": desiderated, desiderates. (additional references)


Misspellings

"DESIDERATE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: desciderata, desidarata, desiderada, desiderare, desidero, desiderta, desidertata, desidrata, desiredata, desiterata, disiderata. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "DESIDERATE"

Words rhyming with "DESIDERATE" (pronounced 'De*sid"er*ate'): Abacinate, Abalienate, Aberrate, Aberuncate, Abirritate, Abjudicate, Abjugate, Ablactate, Ablaqueate, Abligate, Abnegate, Abnodate, Abominate, Abranchiate, Absinthate, Absinthiate, Absquatulate, Acaudate, Accelerate, Accentuate, Acclimate, Accorporate, Accriminate, Accurate, Acerbate, Acetate, Achlamydate, Acidulate, Activate, Aculeate, Aculeolate, Acutifoliate, Acutilobate, Adipocerate, Adjugate, Admarginate, Administrate, Adnate, Adrogate, Adulate, Adumbrate, Aerate, AEstivate, Affatuate, Affectionate, Affricate, Aggerate, Aggrate, Aggravate, Agitate. (additional references)

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Anagrams: DESIDERATE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-e-e-i-r-s-t"

-2 letters: deediest, deserted, disrated, eateries, readiest, reediest, reedited, reseated, seriated, steadied, steadier.

-3 letters: addrest, aeriest, aridest, astride, deadest, deaired, dearest, dearies, deedier, derated, derates, derides, desired, diaster, diester, dieters, disrate, eeriest, ideated, ideates, readied, readies, redated, redates, reddest, reedits, reested, resided, resited, sedated, sedater, seedier, seriate, staider, steaded, steered, tardies, tedders, teddies, tirades.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-e-e-i-r-s-t"
 

+1 letter: desiderated, desiderates, rededicates.

 

+2 letters: desiderative, disheartened.

 

+3 letters: predesignated, predestinated.

 

+4 letters: daredeviltries, overadvertised, underestimated.

 

+5 letters: featherbeddings, kindheartedness.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: DESIDERATE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 45 53 49 44 45 52 41 54 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    .    ...    ..    -..    .    .-.    .-    -    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01000101 01010011 01001001 01000100 01000101 01010010 01000001 01010100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#69 &#83 &#73 &#68 &#69 &#82 &#65 &#84 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0045 0053 0049 0044 0045 0052 0041 0054 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

38395343383952355439

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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